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footbridge

/ˈfʊtˌbɹɪd͡ʒ/

footbridge noun: a bridge over a road, railway, river, etc for pedestrians.

footbridge: a bridge over a road, railway, river, etc for pedestrians
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Noun

footbridge (plural footbridges)

  1. A bridge over a road, railway, river, etc for pedestrians.
    • The girder bridge at the head of the pass is used as a footbridge, and is roughly decked.1949 November and December, “Notes and News: Festiniog and Welsh Highland Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 409

footbridge meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Tagalog

footbridge in Tamil

நடைப்பாலம்

footbridge in Malayalam

bridge for pedestrians
നടപ്പാലം naṭappālaṁ

footbridge in Kannada

ಕಾಲುಸೇತುವೆ

footbridge in Tagalog

bridge for pedestrians
taytay
More languagesFewer languages
footbridge in Indonesian
jembatan kaki, jembatan pejalan kaki
footbridge in Thai
สะพานลอย sà-paan-lɔɔi

Synonyms of footbridge

Forms of footbridge

pluralfootbridges

Plural of footbridge: footbridges

Origin of footbridge

From Middle English fot-brigge, equivalent to foot + bridge.

Words formed from footbridge

Questions about footbridge

What does footbridge mean?
Footbridge means a bridge over a road, railway, river, etc for pedestrians.
What is footbridge in Tamil?
Footbridge in Tamil is நடைப்பாலம். See Footbridge meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is footbridge?
Footbridge is a noun.
How do you pronounce footbridge?
Footbridge is pronounced /ˈfʊtˌbɹɪd͡ʒ/.
What is the plural of footbridge?
The plural of footbridge is footbridges.

Words near footbridge in the dictionary

  1. footbrake
  2. footbrakes
  3. footbrawl
  4. footbreadth
  5. footbreadths
  6. footbridge
  7. footbridged
  8. footbridges
  9. footcandle
  10. footcandles
  11. footcare

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: footbridge (page history and authors); footbridge (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); footbridge (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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